China repeatedly lied about the coronavirus, letting it spread across the world, kill millions, and crash the global economy. Then, China tried to capitalize on the issue it had started by shipping out faulty medical equipment and ineffective vaccines to other countries.
Many in the media covered for China and its communist government the entire time. It’s time for some accountability.
The latest development in this saga can be seen in Chile, which has issued lockdowns in its capital of Santiago. Santiago is seeing some of its worst case numbers since the pandemic started, and yet the country has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.
Unfortunately, Chile’s vaccination numbers were achieved mostly with China’s ineffective Sinovac vaccine, which even China’s top health official was forced to acknowledge doesn’t have a high protection rate.
israel, which used pfizer, is down to an average of 14 cases per day. chile, which mostly used china’s sinovac, is seeing around 7,000 cases.
chile has a little more than twice israel’s population but nearly 500 times as many cases https://t.co/WtiEZhBU0X
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) June 14, 2021
We also know that China shipped defective masks and testing kits earlier in the pandemic to several countries, including Spain, Turkey, and the Netherlands. And now, it seems the world has finally come around to what some people have recognized the entire time: The pandemic most likely started because of a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
You can quibble with how much of this should be chalked up to hindsight, but it was always clear that China is an authoritarian regime that would do anything to make itself look good. Why did our media help it?
No sensible person should have taken China at its word about anything related to the pandemic, and yet many in our media did exactly that.
Consider those ineffective vaccines. CNN painted a friendly picture of China’s “vaccine diplomacy” last December, highlighting a “stark contrast” between China promising to share vaccines with the developing world while the United States took an “America first” approach to vaccines developed thanks to the policies of former President Donald Trump. Yet our vaccines, the Trump vaccines, are the ones that actually make the world safe. Go figure.
The faulty medical equipment and coronavirus tests? China was praised for these in March 2020 at the Intercept, under the headline, “As the U.S. blames China for the coronavirus pandemic, the rest of the world asks China for help.” Ken Dilanian, Dan De Luce, and Carol Lee at NBC News took the same tone. How embarrassing for them.
With Italy in dire need of medical equipment, an economic superpower stepped in to help.
No, not the United States.
It was China.
As the U.S. struggles to stem the coronavirus, China positions itself as global leader https://t.co/PVCGozwEfF via @nbcnews
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) March 26, 2020
And then, there is the lab leak. Outlet after outlet deemed it a conspiracy theory and dismissed it out of hand for no reason with no evidence. Vox called it a distraction. The Washington Post falsely stated that the theory was “debunked.” PolitiFact issued a “pants on fire” ruling to the claim that COVID-19 was a “man-made virus created in the lab.” All three have had to issue corrections.
Big Tech companies also decided to prove all of their detractors correct, as Facebook censored claims about the origins of the virus and Twitter was unwilling to rule censorship out. Facebook has since reversed its policy but, as with the media outlets who propped up China’s coronavirus response, the damage has been done.
China’s coronavirus aid to the world was nothing more than a propaganda ploy, and many in our media fell for it. China covered up the origins of the coronavirus, and many in our media went along with it. All for a political advantage in 2020, during which China could serve as a foil on the world stage for Trump.
